and in addition to these across-the-board cuts to awardse, section 3001 bonus points to the hospital that spends the least for seniors. think about that. not per se -- not per patient. per senior. we know hospitals in the bottom quintile for spending for seniors have higher death rates for congestive heart your, pneumonia, other common maladies of the elderly. older patients in those hospitals have a poorer chance of surviving their illness and making it home again. thethis law is pressuring other hospitals to imitate the hospitals that have a high death rates. section 3001,, will also mean that you were replacements,p angioplasty,ents, bypass surgery, cataract operations. those are the five procedures that have virtually transformed the experience of aging in our country. when i was a kid, i remember that older people were trapped in wheelchairs with crippling arthritis, were stuck in nursing homes because they were so out of breath from congestive heart failure. now, older people enjoy their later years. they continue to work. they travel. they play with their grandchildren. they e